So, if your wardrobe is approximately 6 cubic metres and half full, then you are likely to spend approximately 1.5 hours a week or 12 minutes a day deciding what to wear.

I choose not to disclose my ‘z’ factor at this time, but let’s just say I’m not far from resorting to this:

Naturally, I am concerned.

Solution

One way of dealing with this, of course, is to buy more clothes — logical and self-explanatory, my favorite type of solution! I usually go with this approach. Side note: I was eyeing Lulu Guinness and Need Supply on the weekend, but only ordered these shoes from MyHabit:

The other option involves a wardrobe clean-out, where unwanted items can be sold on eBay / donated to charity / swapped with other high z factor-ers / discarded. Sounds simple, right? I struggled to part with an ugly pair of red, boot-leg corduroy jeans from 7 years ago, because *gasp* how can I be sure they won’t become oh-so-fashionable again in 2016?? They went in the ‘must keep’ pile…

Oh no, I just realised that buying more clothes is not logical at all and is actually disproved by that stupid formula I renowned mathematicians came up with, because buying more clothes actually increases the wardrobe utilisation rate, which in turn increases the z factor!! And the only way to decrease it would be to:

a) decrease your wardrobe space (e.g. by turning half of it into a bookshelf!), or